[Simsor]

There's also libtcod[0], a library to help creating roguelikes. There are bindings in a lot of languages (Common Lisp, Nimrod, Lua, Go, D...) and it's a real pleasure to use! I used to work on a Python roguelike, and I can't recommend this lib enough.

[0] http://roguecentral.org/doryen/libtcod/

[cturner]

Frustration. I wasn't able to get libtcod to build. Tried to get prep'd for 7drl a few months back on debian (previous stable) and when that failed, a clean install of windows 7. I've also had trouble with race conditions with keypresses and the python version, although that was a few years back. I like the libtcod philosophy of it being a library approach (contrast with t-engine, which is more of a sandbox model).